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[RAMBLINGS] Bu's Views 21March2006
March 21, 2006 08:40AM
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I need to stop listening to so much Talk Radio
Don't get me wrong, I love listening to talk radio, but lately it is getting hard to take anyone seriously anymore. My day usually starts with Atlanta News Radio AM 750 WSB. I then turn to WOKV in Jacksonville, Florida and catch three hours of Neal Boortz, then 3 hours of Rush. I then catch Sean Hannity, either on WOKV or in my car on XM Radio. After that, it is the Larry Elder show.
I have listened to Boortz for 14 years. He is someone I really admire. It was his shows and his political leanings that got me interested in politics (even for entertainment). Over the past few weeks I am really starting to see the truth. These people are entertainers, not political pundits. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it, except my realization that I have been disillusioned.
Boortz was on yesterday talking about a case in Georgia where Medicaid administrators want to be paid back, through the assets of one of their recipients, the tax payer money that was spent on this woman while she was in the care of the Medicaid program. So far, I am in agreement. But then the statement was made by Mr. Boortz, and granted he has a limited amount of time to get his point across, so I am hoping this was just a consolidated version of his mindset, that when someone becomes a Medicaid recipient a thorough background and financial check should be done, and if the person has assets that "Medicaid should seize bank accounts, and put a lien on property". Now obviously I agree that anyone who has the funds should pay for their own medical care first and not rely on a government (subsequently, the citizenship) to foot the bill. But the idea that someone advocate that a goverment body seize assets, or lay claim to private WITHOUT due process of law, is beyond believable. I admire Neal Boortz. As I said, his show is what got me interested in politics, and self-sufficiency. I only hope the statement about seizing property was a non-thought out, blurt, and not something he would really advocate. I am holding out hope that he meant that the medicaid recipient and the state should enter into a contract prior to the exhange of benefits that authorizes the people of the state (government) to be paid back... His point was made, but .... If medicaid didn't exist in the first place, we wouldn't have people trying to get goverment to foot the bill for their medical expenses.
Now, Sean Hannity is a different breed altogether. For several weeks he has been on a tirade, denouncing the current republican party and its leaders. I agree with him. This party is but a mere shell of the 1994 Newt Gingrich led Republican revolution. However, as I said, Sean has gone on and on about not being a Republican. He has even stated recently he is a Libertarian (in the Reagan mold). So why, I ask, does Sean Hannity get into an argument with advocate of Socialism, where Sean argues that the Government should "Give the rich back more of their money?" Am I the only one who sees something wrong with this argument? A small government "libertarian" proponent would be saying "the government shouldn't be taking that much money through legislation and enforcement by instilling fear on the people in the first place." A government can't "give back" what it hasn't taken in the first place. It is a simple concept.
Just remember... Entertainers First... Political advocates second. And as Mr. Boortz says.. "Don't believe anything you hear unless you have already verified it to be true."
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